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Default Cyrus - can't create user mailbox

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 6.06 drake amd64


I'm following;

Cyrus
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cyrus

building IMAP/POP servers.


Packages installed;
Code:
postfix

cyrus-admin-2.2 
cyrus-clients-2.2 
cyrus-imapd-2.2 
sasl2-bin
cyrus-pop3d-2.2

libc-client-dev
gamin

Everything is going on smoothly w/o problem.


Coming to creating Mailbox I can't proceed further;


$ cyradm -u cyrus localhost
Code:
Password: 
localhost> cm user.satimiscyrus
createmailbox: Permission denied

$ tail /var/log/mail.log
Code:
Jun  8 18:09:16 lampserver cyrus/imap[4478]: executed
Jun  8 18:09:16 lampserver cyrus/imap[4478]: accepted connection
Jun  8 18:09:16 lampserver cyrus/imap[4478]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext satimis SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
Jun  8 18:10:19 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: process 4478 exited, status 0
Jun  8 18:11:04 lampserver cyrus/master[4480]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
Jun  8 18:11:04 lampserver cyrus/imap[4480]: executed
Jun  8 18:11:04 lampserver cyrus/imap[4480]: accepted connection
Jun  8 18:11:13 lampserver cyrus/imap[4480]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): authentication failure: client response doesn't match what we generated]
Jun  8 18:11:16 lampserver cyrus/imap[4480]: login: localhost [127.0.0.1] anonymous ANONYMOUS User logged in
Jun  8 18:12:54 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: process 4480 exited, status 0

$ su - cyrus -c cyradm localhost
Code:
Password: 
localhost> cm user.satimiscyrus
createmailbox: Permission denied

$ tail /var/log/mail.log
Code:
Jun  8 18:27:14 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4497]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001
Jun  8 18:27:14 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4497]: archiving database file: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db
Jun  8 18:27:14 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4497]: archiving log file: /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001
Jun  8 18:27:14 lampserver cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4497]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
Jun  8 18:27:14 lampserver cyrus/master[3881]: process 4497 exited, status 0
Jun  8 18:42:51 lampserver cyrus/master[4511]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
Jun  8 18:42:51 lampserver cyrus/imap[4511]: executed
Jun  8 18:42:51 lampserver cyrus/imap[4511]: accepted connection
Jun  8 18:43:00 lampserver cyrus/imap[4511]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): authentication failure: client response doesn't match what we generated]
Jun  8 18:43:03 lampserver cyrus/imap[4511]: login: localhost [127.0.0.1] anonymous ANONYMOUS User logged in

I can't resolve
Code:
badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): authentication failure: client response doesn't match what we generated

I have been trying a day w/o breakthrough


$ sudo grep "^partition-" /etc/imapd.conf
Code:
partition-default: /var/spool/cyrus/mail
partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news

$ sudo ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/mail
Code:
drwxr-x--- 29 cyrus mail 4096 2008-05-24 21:46 /var/spool/cyrus/mail

$ sudo ls -ld /var/spool/cyrus/news
Code:
drwxr-x--- 29 cyrus mail 4096 2008-05-24 21:46 /var/spool/cyrus/news

Please help. TIA


B.R.
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